Abstract
Recent student movement toward which many countries devise a countermove in spheres of politics, education, labor market, etc., has many different characteristics from the ones of, for example, the labor movement and the past student movement. They are aggressiveness, massiveness, daily activeness, behaviorism, co-movement with laborers and political leaders, out-campus movement and surrealistic ideology.
The author discusses in the paper the ways how to analyze the movement from sociological point of view. A structure of the movement is one of objects of the analysis in this context. Participants, affiliated organization, places, motives, the way to mobilize the movement, objects, countermeasures and growing and declining processes are, among others, items to be analyzed in the movement.
A classification of the literatures on the movement suggests that the past research had been done, firstly, at a historical perspective where ideological influences and its continuity in the movement were main concerns, secondly, at an organizational perspective where size of the organization, the relation between the organization and the movement, goal, integration and non-adaptive function of the organization -and the relation between the leader and followers of the organization were discussed, thirdly, at an ideological perspective where you can see that the movement in Japan could not stand with one and only one ideology. The fourth perspective is a study of the participants. Ascribed as well as achieved characteristics of those who participate in the movement fall in this category. If we agree that participants and leaders are different in their characteristics, we have to set up the fifth perspective as a study of leaders.
